I just got mugged at knife point

[chanty]

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I've never heard the term "the old bill". How did it come about?

[Yao]

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Glald you're alright mate, I know what it feels like (even got shot at). Robbers usually go for the quick fix and don't tend to take more than what they can immediately use -cash & credit cards as long as the latter will give. It might have been different if they had your parents' keys, but that isn't the case if I'm not mistaken.

Hey, and just realize: you are bound to run into some bad people in your life at some point...you just had your moment. Put it in perspective and don't be taken too heavily by it, alright? (you are allowed to get boozed up to help the process tho )

[Adzey]

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I've never heard the term "the old bill". How did it come about?

Origins of the name "Old Bill"

We are often asked about the origins of "The Old Bill" or "The Bill" as slang names for the police. The simple answer is that no one really knows for sure. Over the years at least 13 different possibilities have been proposed, as follows:

1. "Old Bill" was King William IV, whose constables were an early form of police. (It is often said erroneously that he was on the throne when the police were founded. Actually he did not succeed George IV until 1830)
2. The play "The Custom of the Country" written by John Fletcher in 1619 has constables of the watch refer to themselves as 'us peacemakers and all our bill of authority'.
3. Constables of the watch were sometimes nicknamed for the bills, or billhooks they carried as weapons.
4. Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia visited England around the time in 1864 when the police uniform changed from top hat and swallowtail coat to helmet and tunic. Such 'Prussian militarism' may have led to the police being nicknamed after the first (and today less remembered) Kaiser Bill.
5. The 'old bill' was, in Victorian times, a bill presumed to be presented by the police for a bribe to persuade them to turn a blind eye to some nefarious activity.
6. New laws for the police to enforce all come from bills passed through Parliament
7. "Old Bill" might refer to Bill Bailey of the music hall song 'Won't You Come Home...?' used in conjunction with a pun on the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey.
8. In the 1860s there was a Sergeant Bill Smith in Limehouse. He was a popular character and people used to ask after 'Old Bill'.
9. Many police officers wore authoritarian-looking "Old Bill" moustaches like that adorning a famous W.W.1 cartoon character 'the wily old soldier in the trenches' by Bruce Bairnsfather.
10. In 1917 the government used Bairnsfather's character in posters and advertisements putting over wartime messages under the heading "Old Bill says...". For this campaign the character was dressed in a special constable's uniform.
11. The original vehicles used by the Flying Squad all had the registration letters BYL, so the squad became known as 'the Bill'.
12. The London County Council at one time registered all police, fire and ambulance vehicles with the letters BYL
13. According to old Etonian illegal gaming club organizer and author the late Robin Cook ('Derek Raymond'), 'old bill' is a racing term for an outsider or unknown quantity. From the point of view of the underworld, police would be outsiders

Despite all these suggestions, the earliest documented usage traced by the Metropolitan Police Historical Museum is from 1970 and 'Partridge's Dictionary of Slang'. Without giving citations the book dates "Old Bill" from the 1950s "or perhaps earlier". So the term may possibly be post W.W.2.

[chanty]

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Whoa! Thanks, I'll go with #5.

[chanty]

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Hey Johns...did you call the old bill yet? How are you feeling?

[runningman]

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hey johns glad to hear you are A ok. I got robbed at knife point a few months back (May). Make sure you go to the police and at least make a report. I wouldn't worry to much about them showing up at your parents house. They were after money not you personally. The police won't find him and you are kind of left worrying all the time.

Too bad you didn't have a gun on you!! I bet you wish you did God knows I wish I had one when I got robbed.

[Shpira]

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sorry to hear mate.
Don't worry about it...really its no big deal. It really does happen to anyone and honestly its just a normal part of life. I think its sometimes good that shit like that happens...just to remind us that we are alive and that there are people who are more fucked up than we are
so cheer up

[Shpira]

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Too bad you didn't have a gun on you!! I bet you wish you did.

[Maff]

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Hope your ok sean mate?

[Miroslav]

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and i am very shaken up. .. they got my wallet with everything in it. i put a stop on my credit cards and debit cards. Thing that worries me though is my drivers license .. on it was my parents address i dont have my address on it. I feel that once they find out i have put a stop on it they will go to my parents house. what do i do. i have not been to the police yet. maybe i will go tomorrow.

I am sorry to hear what happened to you. But WHY in the world would you wait until tomorrow to go to the police?? If I was you, I'd have already called the police and my family asap. Time is of the essence here.

[etincelles]

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damn....

[jeffrey collins]

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Sorry to hear about that bro.

[kassios]

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Glad that you re safe man...i would definetely go to the police and report...you might be lucky that a good citizen found it and took it to the closest station round your area.

[Erik Mitchell]

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Ouch, good thing nobody was hurt. Sorry this happened, what city do you live in?

[poults]

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I am sorry to hear what happened to you. But WHY in the world would you wait until tomorrow to go to the police?? If I was you, I'd have already called the police and my family asap. Time is of the essence here.

Totally agree with this man, should have done it right away really. Anyway at least your ok and all that stuff can be replaced. At the end off the day life is worth more than a bit of money and shit.